I think forcing people to publicly endorse policies that they don’t endorse in practice just because they would solve the problem in theory is not a recipe for policy success.
I know this was said in a different context, but:
The request from people like Yudkowsky, Soares, PauseAI, etc is not that people should publicly endorse the policy despite not endorsing it in practice.
Their request is that they shouldn’t be held back from saying so only because they think the policy is unlikely to happen.
There’s a difference between (1) I don’t support a pause because it’s unlikely to happen, even though it would be a great policy, better than the policy I’m pushing. (2) I don’t support a pause because it wouldn’t be executed well and would be negative.
I know this was said in a different context, but:
The request from people like Yudkowsky, Soares, PauseAI, etc is not that people should publicly endorse the policy despite not endorsing it in practice.
Their request is that they shouldn’t be held back from saying so only because they think the policy is unlikely to happen.
There’s a difference between
(1) I don’t support a pause because it’s unlikely to happen, even though it would be a great policy, better than the policy I’m pushing.
(2) I don’t support a pause because it wouldn’t be executed well and would be negative.
They’re saying (1) is bad, not (2).